New Facebook Features

If you didn’t notice, Facebook once again mixed up their interface. Basically the top and left menu bars were simplified and condensed which may cause you strife to find everything right away.

Do you like this new layout or are you wishing you had a choice of the old one?

http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php

Viral Videos Gone Wild

The other day I was flipping through the channels and I landed on what I thought at first was a joke. Months back on YouTube I saw a similar video so I thought I was hallucinating. I checked the station, it was MTV and continued to watch.

Slap Chop is a culinary dicing tool that eliminates the hassle of using a conventional knife to slice up your favorite foods. Just simply place the food below the device, give it a few slaps and dinner is severed. The original commercial featured a young fast-talking pitchman that rifled through Slap Chop’s features slicing everything from eggs to onions. I then discovered on YouTube weeks later a video mimicking the same commercial that had me in hysterics.

A user took the Slap Chop commercial used Auto Tune, a popular method to robotize a voice, and put a back-beat behind it which turned it into a rap. The video received thousands of hits and sky-rocketed to top viewed clips. The creators of this product decided to respond to what the users wanted and took this same concept and made a commerical out of it. This same YouTube video went from spoof to reality in a matter of months.

Can your business take advantage of online user based contributions and turn it into a product campaign?

http://www.slapchoprap.com

Twitter Hover Cards

Have you heard of Hover Cards? Twitter is rolling out a new feature that gives you the ability to learn a little bit more about your fellow Twitterer by hovering over their name. Now instead of having to leave the page, you can follow, retweet and find their vital stats in a single glance.

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/flying-around-with-hovercards.html

Thanks to Todd Bertsch for the tip!

Apptizr Serves iPhone Apps

Looking for another way to find new iPhone or iTouch apps? Check out Apptizr because it’s the easiest way to discover the best apps. You’ll get 10 new recommendations per week. You can rate apps and the system will begin to present the best ones to you based on your tastes.

Instead of searching through top 50 app lists, let Apptizr do the hard work for you! Get an Apptizr account to customize your results at apptizr.com.

How Do You Recognize Legit Internet Coupons?

The other day as I stood in line with my 12 items and more, I wandered past the tabloids, assortment of flavored low- calorie gum, and landed on photocopy nestled between the cashier and my groceries. The sheet listed tips for the cashier to recognize a legitimate Internet coupon. I immediately had a Family Guy flash forward; it featured me holding up the line with a phony coupon and an angry mob chasing me down in the parking lot, flipping my car over and taking my Twinkie box. Thus, I read on and decided to share the information with you!

How to Identify A Legit Internet Coupon:
1. No Free / High Value Coupons – Does the offer looks to good to be true?
2. Customer Identifiers – Asks you enter in a Pin code from a website
3. Expiration Date – Is there a date, if so is it within a few months?
4. Legal Language – Is there legal language (fine print)?
5. Easily Scannable Barcode – Does the bar code code look clear?
6. Color or Black & White – It doesn’t matter
7. Multiple Coupon Prints – There should be a limit, if not probably not real
8. Obvious Alteration – Common sense goes a long way

This information is courtesy of the Association of Coupon Professionals. Would knew there was organization devoted to coupons, now that’s cool!